Althouse: "I know! I'm so shocked, and I feel a great sense of personal loss."

June 14, 2013

"I know! I'm so shocked, and I feel a great sense of personal loss."

5 years ago.

(I should have seen this yesterday.)

15 comments:

edutcher said...: Russert was a shill for the bad guys.

Maybe a little more personable than most (I never thought so, but different strokes..) and less obvious than Gregory, but no doubt whose side he was on.; 6/14/13, 12:07 PM
Eric the Fruit Bat said...: This post is supposed to elicit comments about how Tim Russert never showed up at any of the Althouse meet-ups?; 6/14/13, 12:10 PM
X said...: I'll always remember him for giving us the red state and blue state paradigm and getting it wrong on purpose.; 6/14/13, 12:11 PM
Bob Ellison said...: Like Jaltcoh, I was shocked by Tim Russert's death. Russert was a giant, and a good one.; 6/14/13, 12:33 PM
campy said...: He was a good soldier for The Movement.; 6/14/13, 12:57 PM
Ruth Anne Adams said...: I miss Tony Snow in just the same way.; 6/14/13, 1:21 PM
Lyle said...: Christopher Hitchens' death hurt me the most.; 6/14/13, 2:37 PM
Emil Blatz said...: I'm still trying to get over the passing of Vivian Vance.; 6/14/13, 2:42 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Putting my impression of his leanings aside Russert was better than David Gregory by orders of magnitude.; 6/14/13, 3:05 PM
Baron Zemo said...: Russert was a slightly more intelligent Chris Matthews.

Wait a minute.....a rock could be described as s slightly more intelligent Chris Matthews.

Nevermind.; 6/14/13, 5:53 PM
tiger said...: He was a well-spoken Democrat hack who had his 'thumb on the scale' of almost every interview he did.

Was he better than Gregory?
Yeah and that's not saying much.

The guy who should be missed is
David Brinkley.
Then Tony Snow.
Russert was barely fit to hand them their show prep.; 6/14/13, 11:02 PM
Curious George said...: Jaltcoh: If a tree falls and no one hears it is it really a blog?; 6/15/13, 9:53 AM
dreams said...: I never thought very highly of Russert. He was given too much credit by conservatives because he wasn't as overtly bias as most journalists. If I had my choice, it would have have Russert who was convicted of perjury instead of Scooter Libby. Regardless, a man was convicted of perjury base on a different recollection of a conversation, I'd hate to get convicted of perjury based on the memory of some of the people I play golf with.; 6/15/13, 10:14 AM
Snackeater said...: Russert was one of the biggest media hacks of our time. Granted, he would ask tough questions of both sides, but he never followed up when questioning (D)'s.
Typical exchange:
"Senator (Democrat), there is irrefutable proof that you accepted that bribe--what do you have to say for yourself?"
"It's all a vast right-wing conspiracy to destroy me."
"Fair enough. Whadya think the Bills' chances are this year?"; 6/15/13, 10:15 AM
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